Luka is a Year 7 student from Cobham Intermediate. Luka has entered his home built “Hover board” which utilises Maglev (Magnetic Levitation) technology into a school science fair. He was encountering some issues with one of the housings holding the magnets. He 3D modelled himself a new design using Google SketchUp and contacted us to…
Innovative collaboration and a Living wall
A great project between members of the Library Programme Design and Delivery team in collaboration with Department of Conservation and Fab Lab in Christchurch meant we could utilise our 3D printer to produce and contribute panels to the “Living Wall” project. Elizabeth Guthrey from DOC. Various community groups and organisations such as local schools and…
New Minecraft map built by the students
Every few terms or so at the Minecraft club here at the Christchurch City Libraries, our map becomes a little "messy" and a bit of "griefing" begins to creep in. When this happens and the current students attending the club decide enough is enough, we create a new blank world map. This time around we decided…
Minecraft with Thorrington Primary
This Minecraft 8 week course ran during Term 4 and was a collaboration between 30 Thorrington Primary students, a very enthusiastic teacher "Mr Scurr", and staff here at South Learning Centre. The idea was to have the students create an entire world together from scratch using Minecraft. Used in this way, Minecraft has proven to be a…
2D to 3D
This term our team has been running our very first school programme utilising the Library 3D printer. The name of the course is “2D to 3D” and involves 12 students being introduced to a variety of learning and software that allows them to take 2 dimensional design, (arrived at by following a “design process”) through…
Hillmorton Network News
Hillmorton Network News is a collaborative project between Christchurch City Libraries, Hillmorton High School and Spreydon & Heathcote Community. It's aim is to inspire and engage students and celebrate student, school and Community success via a TV broadcast to a wider audience. We want to promote their 'Proud' moments via our website, YouTube and school…
Minecraft Library
Lydia from the New Brighton Library minecraft club has built this amazing Minecraft Library. Check out the video below. As we move toward building more "actual" Libraries in the city, ideas about what customers would like to see in them are really valuable. If you are a minecraft user and think you can build an…
3.D. Printing at the Library
In the last round of holiday programmes we ran our very first course that involved using a 3.D. printer to print out work that the students produced in a variety of ways. Trimble SketchUp was used to build a 3.D. Keyring and we also used "Tinkercad" as well as a Minecraft server called "Printcraft" to…
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